[PD] GEM on PIII memory problem?

rolf meesters rolfmeesters at gmail.com
Sun Jan 15 18:13:40 CET 2012


On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Cyrille Henry <ch at chnry.net> wrote:

>
>
> Le 14/01/2012 19:59, rolf meesters a écrit :
>
>  hi
>> i have an installation with a number of PIII machines, where some picture
>> manipulation (2D) is done,
>> working nicely on Win-XP and Flash 8 (in 256 Mb).
>>
>> now i'm trying to change from Flash to GEM.
>> the patch i made works perfect on a P4.
>>
>> the PIII's don't have SSE2; therefore i rebuild Pd-ext 42.5 for Linux -
>> (Ubuntu Lucid).
>> however running the patch on the PIII still looks like impossible.
>> Pd/GEM just calls it quits, no message.
>>
>> a basic picture consists of 16 pieces of 800 x 533 pixels, together
>> forming one of 3200 x 2133.
>>
>> to create a full picture resized to 800 x 533 on a normal display,
>> i have 16 identical abstractions, for each piece one,
>> with a gemhead, a pix_texture, a resize, etc.
>>
>> with 8 abstractions/pieces Pd/GEM stays alive, 9 is one too many.
>> memory problem?
>>
> yes, certainly GPU memory limitation.
> in case of share memory between CPU and GPU, can you increase the size the
> the memory allocated to the GPU (in the computer BIOS)?
>
> Cyrille
>
>
>
it's at the max of 64 Mb.



>
>> using the Ubuntu system monitor:
>> bare system (with the monitor) ~290 Mb usage. (of 496MB)
>> starting Pdx console ~300-310 Mb.
>> loading/running the patch   ~335-355 MB.
>>
>> ??
>>
>> on the opening of the patch GEM anounces 8 bits will be used,
>> where the onboard video-card has 24bits.
>>
>> any help is appreciated.
>>
>> rolf
>>
>>
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